Take it here, (original linky in that thread too) but something I think folks really need to know about, post-haste. Basically, the US 10th Circuit Court has ruled yesterday (or was it Thursday?) that some meshes (e.g. meshes of real-life objects) simply cannot be copyrighted.

Yes, you read that right, though it's only under certain conditions.

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After reading the PDF, it strikes me as eminently sane and thoughtful.
In practice, the only way to create a point-by-point copy of a Toyota is under
a work-for-hire arrangement, where the copyright remains with Toyota.

If I tried to do such a mesh on my own, I'd fully expect Toyota to sue me;
and if I had made such a mesh under a work-for-hire agreement, I wouldn't
begin to think that the copyright was mine.  It appears (from this text anyway)
that Meshwerks was trying to slide out of the agreement.

So, does that mean that since M4 is being made from a scan of an actual male model, DAZ is going to have a tough time copyrighting the mesh?

Hmm... I wonder.

Besides... I think M4 is a myth!

I dunno about it being a myth, I saw preview of it on Artzone couple months ago.

But, who knows, sometimes projects get abandoned before they are completed and released.

I'm hoping Phantom3D is going to release his guy before M4. It looks pretty darn spectacular and usable, and I can't wait for it to be released. :)

Quote - So, does that mean that since M4 is being made from a scan of an actual male model, DAZ is going to have a tough time copyrighting the mesh?

If it's like any other DAZ humanoid mesh of recent make, it'll be a confluence of several human beings, which means that as a unique mesh, it's prolly fully copyrightable, like a collage would be. :)

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Quote - > Quote - So, does that mean that since M4 is being made from a scan of an actual male model, DAZ is going to have a tough time copyrighting the mesh?

If it's like any other DAZ humanoid mesh of recent make, it'll be a confluence of several human beings, which means that as a unique mesh, it's prolly fully copyrightable, like a collage would be. :)

Even if it was a scan of a single person, the amount of work required to make it a posable figure, and this would be true for a figure for any software package, would change it into a copyrighted mesh.  The technology to scan something and turn that point cloud or scanline mesh into something that can be animated automatically doesn't exist  yet.  Use the basic scan as a mesh by itself for a static prop, sure, but not much else.